Waukegan has vacant lakefront land available for potential Chicago Bears stadium
Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.The former site of this Johns Manville factory contains more than 300 acres of vacant land, the approximate size of the Arlington International Racecourse. Both Waukegan and Arlington Heights hope to land the new Chicago Bears stadium.
Waukegan Mayor Ann Taylor wrote to Bears President and CEO Kevin Warren June 12 inviting the team to consider Waukegan as a location for its new stadium. She mentioned it as a way to keep the team playing its games along Lake Michigan, as it does now.In her letter to Warren, Taylor mentioned Waukegan has developable land on the shores of Lake Michigan. She said it is a way for the Bears to build a new stadium and continue to play their games along the lakefront.
Whether the Bears or some other developer wants to explore development in Waukegan, Noelle Kischer-Lepper, the city’s director of planning and economic development, said the city is ready to work with them. Kischer-Lepper said a portion of the 36-acre parcel and all of the larger one are U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Superfund sites because of contamination left by factories once there.A soil management plan with the EPA is in place on the smaller lot, where Kischer-Lepper said a sufficient amount of soil is being placed on top of the existing surface to make it suitable for development. A plan needs to be filed for the larger tract.
Though the larger parcel is a Superfund site, it is north of the Canadian Railway tracks, removing them as an obstacle. Kischer-Lepper said the land is privately owned by a corporation.
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